Recently, I was plagued by the “CredentialHelperSelector” dialogue popping up multiple times when attempting to pull from a remote Git repository. This was despite repeatedly selecting the option to remember my selection to use manager and various attempts to explicitly set the config helper via the command line.
In the end, the following command was my saviour:
git config -l --show-originIt showed that the offending credential.helper=helper-selector was specified in the gitconfig file under the Git install (this being Windows). What you then need to know is that credential.helper is a multi-valued list, and so any changes I was making in my user level .gitconfig were additive. This explains why, once an alternative was specified, I could cancel the numerous selector dialogues, and the operation would still complete successfully.
So, how to avoid those annoying pop-ups? Well, if you can edit that system-level gitconfig just remove the offending entry. Unfortunately, on my locked-down system, that wasn’t an option. The answer, then, is this change, available in Git 2.9 onwards. It allows you to specify an empty helper to clear any existing entries in the list. My .gitconfig now contains the following, and the selector is no more!
[credential]
helper =
helper = manager